Polish applicator for rotary brushtype shoe shining machines



S 8 N mm 0 ml 5 6 E Ml l G N NH A D MA E E c mu F May 29, 1951 POLISH APPLICATOR FOR ROTARY BRUSH TYPE INVENTOR Carl E Daniels on ATTORN EYS Patented May 29, 1951 POLISH APPLICATOR FOR ROTARY BRUSH- TYPE SHOE SHINING MACHINES I Carl E. Danielson, North Sacramento, Calif,

Application April 16, 1948, Serial No. 21,526

2 Claims.

This invention has for an object the provision of improvements in a power actuated shoe shining machine arranged so that a customer, standing in front of the machine, obtains a shoe shine by engaging each shoe with accessible, rotary shoe shining brushes.

The machine embodies shoe polishing applying brushes, and separate polishing or finishing brushes used subsequently to complete the shoe shine; the present invention relating to, and it being a further object to provide, a novel arrangement for transferring shoe polish from cakes thereof onto the shoe polish applying brushes.

An additional object of the invention is to provide a shoe shining machine, wherein the shoe polish applying brushes are mounted for movement, in a predetermined direction, and under the influence of a shoe pressed thereagainst, from a normally clear position into contact with a fixed cake of shoe polish; the rotating brush then transferring a small quantity of the polish from the cake to the shoe. 7

Another object of the invention is to provide a novel mount and drive for the polish applying rotary brushes of a shoe shining machine; said brushes, in the present embodiment, being endwise toward the front of the machine and engaged from below by the shoe to move the brushes upward from a lower normally clear position into contact with a cake of polish fixed above the brushes.

It is also an object of the invention to provide the shoe shining machine with a pair of cooperating rotary brushes for black shoes, and another pair of cooperating rotary brushes for brown shoes; said pairs of brushes being endwise toward the front of the machine, as above, and mounted on opposite end portions of a teeter beam normally maintained substantially horizontal but movable upwardly at either end to effect contact of the corresponding pair of brushes with a fixed cake of polish of corresponding color.

A further object of the invention is to provide a practical and effective shoe polish applicator, and one which will be exceedingly effective for the purpose for which it is designed.

These objects are accomplished by means of such structure and relative arrangement of parts as will fully appear by a perusal of the following specification and claims.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a fragmentary front elevation of a shoe shining machine embodying the present invention, and showing particularly the shoe polish applying brushes and their mount, said brushes being in their normal position free'of'the cakes of polish.

Fig. 2 is a similar view, but illustrates one pair of the shoe polishing applying brushes in contact with the corresponding cake of polish.

Referring now more particularly to the characters of reference on the drawings, the shoe shining machine comprises a cabinet, indicated generally at I, which cabinet includes a base 2, sides 3, and a front panel 4.

The front panel 4 is formed, in transversely spaced relation and above the base 2, with a pair of relatively large openings 5 which expose corresponding pairs of cooperating, rotary shoe shining brushes.

The cooperating brushes 6 of each pair are disposed in horizontally alined, side by side relation, and said brushes are disposed endwise toward the front of the machine; the bristles 8 of each pair of said brushes running in contact, as shown.

The brushes each include a hub 9 mounted on a horizontal spindle It, and said spindles project 7 some distance to the rear of the hubs.

Rearwardly of the front panel 4 and the pairs of brushes 6 the machine includes a transversely extending, normally horizontal teeter beam II pivoted or fulcrumed, centrally of its ends, as at I2, in connection with an upstanding bracket i3 whereby said teeter beam. is adapted to be lifted at either end from its normal horizontal position.

The above normal horizontal position is maintained by a suitable spring arrangement, such as relatively lightweight tension springs I4 connected between opposite ends of the beam I I and the base.

The spindles H], which are all in alinement transversely of the machine, project rearwardly through, and are journaled in connection with, the teeter beam I I.

Rearwardly of the corresponding brushes, and back of the beam I I, each spindle includes a pulley I5, and an endless drive belt I6 is reeved about said pulleys in driving relation to the same and corresponding brushes; said endless drive belt extending over and under adjacent ones of said pulleys, as shown, for the purpose of accomplishing reverse driving thereof, and in a direction such that the cooperating brushes 6 of each pair turn downwardly on adjacent sides. This direction of travel of the brushes of each pair is indicated by the arrows in the figures of the drawings. The endless drive belt 56 derives its motion from a separate pulley I! on one of the endmost spindles I 0, which separate drive pulley I1 is driven by an endless belt I8 which traverses a drive pulley I9 of an electric motor 20. The axis of the drive pulley I9 is alined with the pivot I2 whereby the teeter beam I I may swing in a vertical plane Without interfering with proper drive of the brushes from the motor.

Above each pair of the brushes 6 and substantially centrally therebetween, there is mounted a cake 2| of shoe polish; one'cake being brown and the other black. 'Ihese cakes 2| of polish are normally clear of the brushes, as in Fig. 1, and are supported by vertically adjustable carriers 22 fixed in connection with a horizontal, transversely extending frame member 23 in the cabinet I. The cakes 2I are mounted for vertical adjustment so that as they are partly used they may be reset to proper position relative to the brushes. Additionally, the mount is such that the cakes 2! can be replaced.

When the shoe shining machine is in use, with the-pairs of brushes 6 rotating in the indicated direction, a customer places a shoe 24 under the pair of brushes 6 corresponding to the shoe color, i. e. either brown or black.

The shoe is engaged substantially centrally between the selected pair of brushes irom below the same, and is then raised, causing said pair of brushesand the adjacent end of the teeter beam I I to raise against the adjacent tension spring I4.

When this occurs one or both of the brushes of said selected pair sweep or contact the corresponding cake 2: of shoe polish; the brushes then transferring a small amount of said polish from the cake to the shoe 24. When this has been accomplished, said shoe 24 is removed from the machine, whereupon the teeter beam Ii -re-assumes its normal horizontal position, with all brushes clear of the cakes 25. The shoe 24, with the polish applied thereto, is then shined by separate polishing or finishing brushes which the machine embodies, but which are not here shown.

With a polish applicator constructed as described, shoe polish can be readily, quickly, and effectively transferred from one of the cakes 2| to a shoe 24, but without any consumption of the polish except when the machine is in use, and during the period of application of the polish.

From'the foregoing description it will be readily seen that there has been produced such a device as substantially fulfills the objects of theinvention, as set forth herein.

While this specification sets forth in .detail the present and preferred construction of the device, still inpractice such deviations from such detail may be resorted to as do not form a departure from the spirit of the invention, as defined by the appended claims.

Having thus described the invention, the following is claimed as new and useful, and upon which Letters Patent are desired:

- 1. A polish applying brush assembly for a shoe polishing machine comprising a pair of co-operating driven rotary brushes so positioned as to permit a foot to be engaged therewith, means mounting the brushes for movement along a path under the influence of foot pressure applied to such brushes, a source of shoe polish mounted in such path of movement of the brushes and engageable by the brushes as they move along said path, and yieldable means normally maintaining the brushes in spaced relation to the polish source; the polish source being a cake of shoe .polish disposed along a vertical plane which extends substantially centrally betweenthe pairof brushes. v V v 2. A polish applying brush assembly for "a shoe polishing machine comprising a pair of co-operating driven rotary brushes so positioned as to permit a foot to be engaged with the same from below, means mounting the brushes for vertical movement under foot pressure applied thereto from below, a source of shoe polish disposed above the brushes, and engageable by the brushes upon vertical movement of such brushes, and yieldable means normally maintaining the brushes in spaced relation below said polish source.

CARL E. DANIELSON.

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